Adding Suppliers

Hey Everyone,

Background:

First off, let me say - we do not use the supplier portal. We are forced to use the supplier for our Supply Chain Contracts and Service Agreements. We do also use the supplier contacts to keep a listing of supply chain contacts. We only create a supplier for vendors we will create a PO or contract for. We do not create suppliers for every company that our organization does business with.

Question(s):

Do you create a supplier for every vendor? Even if Supply Chain will not issue a PO or Contract to the vendor?

How do you use Suppliers?

Thanks!

Ben

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unknown

Ben, I'm the Comptroller at the City of New Orleans & we use the Supplier Portal faithfully! I will loop in our Chief Procurement Officer, Julien Meyer, jpmeyer@nola.gov, and our INFOR Administrator, Michael Schmidt, mcschmidt@nola.gov, to assist in your questions.

sandra_anderson

Hi Ben,

We are using the Contract Module, and as you alluded to, the vendor is identified as a Supplier record on a contract. If you will be creating POs or Invoices for the contract, the respective Supplier must be linked to a Vendor record.

We do not create a Supplier for every Vendor because we do not have fixed contracts for every Vendor.

gtesche

I'm curious for those that are using Supplier Portal, are you getting pushback from vendors? We have had larger suppliers say outright they don't do Supplier Portals. End of.

Thanks,

Gretchen

unknown

Gretchen, yes, we do get pushback from prominent vendors, but with the added caveat of offering payments via ACH instead of a check is the incentive we used to have them use the Supplier Portal.

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